JAPAN: Death of a Puppet

Ever since he became puppet ruler of
Jap-conquered China five years ago, Wang Ching-wei had expected
deathat the hands of assassins. For several years he had carried in
his body one bullet that failed to kill him. But last fortnight, when
death, as it must to all men, came to China's No.11 traitor (aged 60,
in a Japanese hospital), it came not from gunfire but from diabetes.

Wang Ching-wei entered Chinese politics at the age of 27, with a plot to
assassinate a Manchu prince. After his release from jail, he studied
sociology...